Erwin McManus Quotes
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
